[m-rev.] for review: add 2 news items to web page

[Fergus Henderson]

Estimated hours taken: 0.5
Branches: main

w3/news/newsdb.inc:
	Add two news items:
	- support for accurate GC in the high-level C back-end
	- the .NET back-end bootstraps

Workspace: /home/ceres/fjh/mercury
Index: w3/news/newsdb.inc
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/news/newsdb.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.75
diff -u -d -r1.75 newsdb.inc
--- w3/news/newsdb.inc	24 Dec 2002 06:21:09 -0000	1.75
+++ w3/news/newsdb.inc	3 Dec 2003 02:11:28 -0000
@@ -21,6 +21,24 @@
 */
 
 $newsdb = array(
+"25 Sep 2003" => array("Accurate garbage collection",
+
+"The high-level C back-end now supports accurate garbage collection,
+as an alternative to using the Boehm (et al) conservative collector.
+There is a <A HREF=\"information/papers.html#high_level_gc\">paper</A>
+that describes the new garbage collector.  For more details, see
+the files compiler/ml_elim_nested.m and runtime/mercury_accurate_gc.c
+in the latest Mercury source distribution."
+),
+
+"21 Feb 2003" => array(".NET back-end bootstraps",
+
+"We reached a major milestone for the .NET back-end:
+the Mercury compiler successfully bootstrapped with '--grade il'.
+See <A HREF=\"dotnet.html\">this link</A> for details on the
+current status of the .NET back-end."
+),
+
 "24 Dec 2002" => array("Mercury 0.11.0 released",
 
 "Release information is available

-- 
Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "I have always known that the pursuit
The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>  |     -- the last words of T. S. Garp.
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